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Random Acts of Kindness Day 2017 (WISH-TV, 2.17.2017)

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Post date February 20, 2017
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Random Acts of Kindness Day 2017

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Friday, Feb. 17 is National Random Acts of Kindness Day (RAK), and WISH TV got involved with the help of a former Colts player.

24-Hour News 8’s Joe Melillo spent his morning continuing the tradition of spreading random acts of kindness throughout Daybreak. RAK is a day everyone can get involved in and celebrate the “pay it forward” mentality…He surprised a man with a free cup of coffee at Starbucks, paid for two people’s meals at the Donut Shop on 56th Street, and then he went to Community East Hospital with Random Acts of Flowers.

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(WISH-TV, 2.17.2017)

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“Flowers bring a welcome escape.” (IndyStar, 2.2.17)

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Post date February 2, 2017
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Flowers Bring a Welcome Escape

(IndyStar, 2.2.17)

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Random Acts of Flowers (The Broad Ripple Gazette, Indianapolis, 1.20.17)

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Post date January 23, 2017
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Random Acts of Flowers Indianapolis’s Program Manager, Lindsey Potter says “The wonderful thing about RAF is that it’s a very simple concept that has a huge impact. There isn’t anyone in our community who has not been touched by the experience of having a loved one require healthcare assistance. Everyone can relate to the fear, the stress, and often just the boredom of being hospitalized. We do what we do in order to be bright spot in what can otherwise be a difficult and trying time.”

(The Broad Ripple Gazette, Indianapolis, 1.20.17)

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Kindness in Bloom: A Random Bouquet Makes Patients’ Days (IU Methodist Health Foundation, 1.19.2017)

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Post date January 20, 2017
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Kindness in Bloom:
A Random Bouquet Makes Patients’ Days

We spoke with Alison Kothe, executive director of Random Acts of Flowers Indianapolis, and she explained that flowers are gathered, arranged and delivered by volunteers. She says individual hospitals may direct their team to a particular floor or group of rooms, and from there the volunteers are turned loose to deliver a random burst of color and joy.

“I think this is an important service because there is growing evidence that proves flowers can truly help a patient heal,” she says. “There is a direct correlation between emotional wellbeing and physical wellbeing. They feed off one another. The receipt of an unexpected burst of color as well as an unexpected act of kindness from a perfect stranger with a warm and caring smile is a perfect formula for giving someone a spiritual boost.”

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(Indiana University Methodist Health Foundation, Indianapolis, 1.19.2017)

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2016: A Year in Review (photo slideshow)

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Post date January 10, 2017
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2016 RAF Year in Review

2016 was an INCREDIBLE year here at Random Acts of Flowers. Thank you to everyone who supported our mission of delivering hope!

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100 nursing home residents get flower delivery surprise (WTHR, Indianapolis, 12.23.16)

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Post date January 3, 2017
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100 nursing home residents
get flower delivery surprise

Every single resident of an Indianapolis nursing home received a holiday bouquet Friday morning. Volunteers from Random Acts of Flowers delivered the arrangements to residents at the North Capitol Avenue Nursing home – all 100 of them.

Cathy Poole was on her first delivery with the non-profit Friday. “It’s so special to give people things and especially this time of year and surprise them,” she said.

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(WTHR, Indianapolis, 12.23.16)

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Rescued flowers brighten days for Indianapolis patients (WTHR, Indianapolis, 12.20.16)

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Post date December 21, 2016
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Rescued flowers brighten days
for Indianapolis patients

Most people love a surprise, at least one that makes you smile or feel better. But it’s just as fun when you’re the one making someone else’s day.

“Flowers always lighten up my life. How could they not lighten up the people who get them?” said one volunteer.

“They’re beautiful. Who wouldn’t love a flower?” said another.

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(WTHR, Indianapolis, 12.20.16)

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Bouquets make a difference (Indianapolis, Charitable Advisors, 12.12.16)

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Post date December 13, 2016
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Bouquets make a difference

By Lynn Sygiel, editor, Charitable Advisors

At Random Acts of Flowers (RAF), recipients of the arrangements are touched and surprised.

“The calls we get from these recipients, they just make you weep because you know what that arrangement looked like. You know it was not a big extravagant bouquet, it was a tiny little happy, made-with-love arrangement to a stranger,” said Alison Kothe, Indianapolis’ RAF executive director

One Eskenazi Hospital patient called the week after a delivery and left a voicemail saying, “‘They’re making me go to this rehab place way out on 38^th Street, but they cannot make me not take my flowers. They may kick me out, but I’m taking my flowers.’ It was so cute, and it was wonderful to think that a week after we made the delivery, her flowers were still well enough to go to the rehab place,” said Kothe.

(Indianapolis, Charitable Advisors, 12.12.16)

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The healing power of flowers (Indianapolis, Charitable Advisors, 12.12.16)

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Post date December 13, 2016
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The healing power of flowers

By Lynn Sygiel, editor, Charitable Advisors

Why Indianapolis? Five years ago, Betty Stilwell, then chief philanthropy officer at IU Health, mentioned the organization to [now-RAF Indianapolis Executive Director, Alison] Kothe. Stilwell said she had been talking with Jay Hicks, president and CEO of Prime Care Properties and Management. After meeting RAF’s founder and joining its national board, he thought Indianapolis was ready to become involved.

“Hicks was really the mover and shaker behind the Random Acts of Flowers in Indianapolis,” Kothe said. Once the commitment was made, things moved quickly. The first seed-money house party was in March of this year, and the new 501(c)3 moved into its space in September and started deliveries the next month.

As of early December, over 1,245 arrangements had been delivered to area hospitals and nursing homes.

WTHR: Charity recycles donated flowers to hospital patients

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Post date October 14, 2016
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INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) – No one likes being at the hospital – but one new local organization is doing something to give patients a little happiness.

Random Acts of Flowers opened a branch Thursday in Indianapolis. It’s the charity’s fifth branch nationwide.

The group collects donations of flowers from weddings and other events where arrangements may otherwise be thrown out. Volunteers give the flowers a fresh cut and fresh water, then create new bouquets, which are hand delivered to a healthcare facility in less than 24 hours.

Thursday, about 75 patients at Eskenazi Health received flowers from the group.

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